You can buy Windows 7 soon – should Office users bother? Windows 7 is now ‘RTM’ Released to Manufacturing which is Microsoft speak to say that all the programming and testing is done – now they make the DVD’s and boxes as well as fully unleashing the marketing mavens. We’ve
Don’t get your hopes up, Office 2010 is a done deal. A few weeks ago a curious campaign started, mostly via Twitter, to ask Microsoft is ‘fix‘ Outlook 2010. The complaint is about the way Outlook creates HTML formatted emails, which is the way most people send emails with ‘full’
A first in-depth look at ribbon ‘hand weaving’ in the next Office. Microsoft’s second attempt at the ribbon interface is coming in Office 2010 and this time we’ll not be stuck with Microsoft’s ribbon – you can weave your own. Office 2007 gave us the ribbon interface but no practical
We’ve just heard a talk about ActionBase in Office 2010 and still don’t know what it is. UPDATE: Though it’s not at all clear from the conference video. ActionBase is a non-Microsoft product, not a part of Office 2010 or any upcoming Microsoft product, or indeed the VBA class called
A new ebook on using Microsoft Access to make great Word documents. Office Watch and Helen Feddema are delighted to announce the publication of a new Office Watch ebook especially for Microsoft Access users. Access Archon – Working with Word by Helen Feddema, editor of Access Watch. Like
What to do if you’ve lost your Microsoft Office install disks? Let’s say you’ve lost your Microsoft Office installation CD / DVD or even floppy disks from years ago – what can you do? There are two things you need to recover – the installation files and the product key.
Dell is now selling Office 2007 as a legal download but is it cheaper? Dell Computers is now selling Microsoft Office as a download – the first company other than Microsoft itself to do that. Until now, Dell has been able to sell MS Office pre-installed on their computers or
A look at the progress of Office 2007 SP2 – bugs fixed or not. It has been over a month since Office 2007 Service Pack 2 was released. Here’s a look Outlook 2007 won’t start We mentioned reports of Outlook 2007 not starting after SP2 was installed. Those initial reports
Leaked documents reveal Office document support in the upcoming Pre. Thanks to Engadget and a leak from Sprint we have confirmed details on the upcoming device and how it will be sold. The launch guide has details of pricing, monthly plans for US customers but, as usual, Office Watch is
How to install Office without a CD or DVD drive. “I have a netbook with no optical drive. How can I install Microsoft Office? A friend says I have to either buy Office as a download from Microsoft or get an illegal download – don’t like either of those options.
Three places to save password information in MS Office. Ideally each login to a computer or web site should have its own password but it’s a given that we all use the same passwords too often. Remembering all those passwords is hard enough but you also have to remember the
Which versions of Office are approved on the server OS? As we mentioned last year, Windows Server 2008 can be used as a very stable and fast workstation operating system – it’s certainly more stable than Windows Vista in many situations. In addition, Office can run on Windows Server and
Office 2007 SP2 problems remain unsolved. Here are details of some possible Office 2007 Service Pack 2 problems we’ve been told about. We say possible only because in most cases we’ve been unable to confirm the details ourselves and there’s been no response from Microsoft yet. Still best to wait
How to get rid of SP2 if it’s causing a problem. Office 2007 Service Pack 2 is the first Office SP that you can uninstall but it’s not at all easy or obvious. The uninstall tool is a command line tool – you read that right and yes, we are
When you buy Office 2007, how many computers can you install it on? When you buy Microsoft Office 2007, how many computers can you install the software on? The long and complex license for Office can be confusing and, from the messages we receive, there’s even more confusion now there’s
Windows 7 added 43 fonts to the set supplied by Windows. There will be 21 new typefaces in Windows 7, a total of 43 fonts to the set supplied by Windows. Many of the fonts are for non-English languages like Hindi, Japanese and Arabic. For Latin and similar alphabets, the
Outlook 2003, CMS and WSS get more hotfixes for ‘new’ bugs. Microsoft has released two more ‘hotfixes’ for Outlook 2003 bugs plus two patches for Content Management Server 2002 and a time zone update for Sharepoint. These patches are in addition to the patches for Office 2003, Excel 2003, PowerPoint
Even after Service Pack 2, there are more fixes for Office 2007. Service Pack 2 has been out less than a week and already there are more fixes for Office 2007. These ‘hotfixes’ are temporary and ‘ not fully tested’ updates. Most are dated 30 April 2009 – only a
We look at some reports of Office 2007 SP2 bugs. There are some complaints appearing of problems are installing Office 2007 Service Pack 2 – hardly a surprise. It’s always hard to work out whether an Office Service Pack is truly to blame, though the uninstall option for SP2 makes
Six new patches for Office 2003, Word 2003, Excel 2003 and PowerPoint 2003. The update ‘fun’ this week users isn’t limited to Office 2007 – there are also several ‘hotfixes’ for Office 2003. These ‘hotfixes’ are temporary and ‘ not fully tested’ updates. Only install them if you have the
Some highlights and low lights of Service Pack 2. Only 24 hours since Office 2007 Service Pack 2 was released, here are some highlights and lowlights that have caught our eye. Over the coming weeks we’ll look at some features in detail and, hopefully, report as Microsoft discloses more information
Separate downloads of Service Pack 2 updated help files if you know where to look. Nowhere on Microsoft’s Service Pack 2 info pages will you find mention of yet more Office 2007 downloads. At the same time as Service Pack 2 was released are updated Help file downloads as well.
Office 2000, Office XP and Office 2003 users have an Office 2007 related update too. There is an Office 2007 related update for Office 2000, Office XP and Office 2003 users. We strongly suggest installing the’ Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats‘ which let
The official fix list for OneNote 2007 SP2 both the summary and the complete list Here’s the official fix list for OneNote 2007 SP2 both the summary and the complete list. We’ve published it here for easy reference instead of hunting around Microsoft’s web site and an Excel worksheet. This
